Toy soldier



C. H. KALLENBERG.

TOY SOLDIER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I3, 1920.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Invenfor UNITED STATES CARL H. KALLENBERG, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

TOY SOLDIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A11 2, 1921.

Application filed September 13, 1920. Serial No. 409,817.

1 o ((ZZ whom it 122 my concern Be it known that I, CARL H. KALLENBERG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and useful improvements in Toy Soldiers, of which the following is a specification.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters miirlred thereon, which form a part of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an amusing toy in the form of a soldier or the like with which can be produced realistic imitations of various movements of a soldier in loading, firing, etc.

Figure l of the drawings is a view in side elevation of my improved toy-soldier in the position of attention, indicating in dotted lines the position in loading.

Fig. 2 is a similar view in the position of firing.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross-section taken on tile broken line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1 is a base from which is erected a body, 2, made to simulate the form of the body of a soldier, marine or the like.

A pair of arms, 3 and at, are pivotally mounted upon opposite sides of the body by means of a shaft or spindle, 5, which passes through the body, being rotatably mounted thereupon. and having the arms 3 and at, fixed upon the opposite ends of said shaft whereby both arms move in unison with each other.

A toy-gun, 6, is pivot-ally connected at 7 intermediatel of its ends upon the outer end of the arm, 3.

4-3. rod, 8, pivotally connected at 9 with the butt of the is adapted to reciprocate in a vertical slideway, 10, in the base, 1, so that the gun can be pushed upwardly causing the arm. 3, to swing upwardly and outwardly whereby the gun and the arms of the toy can be caused to assume various positions relatively to each other and relatively to the body, 2.

p The gun and arms can thus be moved from the position at attention shown in Fig. 1 to the partly raised position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, which is approximately the loading position.

Approximately at the point where the arms are pivoted upon the body, I locate a fulcrum-stop in the form of a shoulderblock, 11, in the path of the butt of the gun and when the butt of the gun engages said shoulder-block, 11, the fulcrum of the gun becomes shifted from its point of pivotal connection 7, with the arm, 3, to the point of engagement of the butt with said shoulder-block, causing a sudden final upward movement of the arms and the gun to firing position as shown in Fig.

The rod, 8, is preferably made of springwire whereby, while it is confined by its slideway 10, the upper end of the rod can yield more or less to accommodate itself to the movements of the butt of the gun from time to time.

The distance of the pivotal connection, 7, from the butt of the gun is approximately equal to the distance from said pivotal connection to the shoulder-block, 11.

The device is operated by merely moving the rod, 8, up and down.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A toy-soldier comprising in combination a body having a shoulder-block; an arm pivoted upon the body adjacent to the shoulder-block; a toy-gun pivotally connectet. to the outer end of said arm at a distance from the butt end of the gun approximately equal to the distance from said pivotal conneotion to said shoulder-block; and a rod pivotally connected with the butt of the gun.

2. A toy-soldier comprising in combination a base provided with a vertically extending slideway; a body erected from the base; an arm pivotally mounted upon the body; a toy-gun pivotally connected intermediately of its ends with the outer end of said arm; a rod reciprocatory in said slideway pivotally connected with the butt of the gun; and a fulcrum-stop in the path of the butt of the gun near the shoulder portion of the body.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 2nd day of September, 1920.

CARL H. KALLENBERG. 

